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| author | Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> | 2025-12-30 17:25:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2025-12-31 09:04:09 -0800 |
| commit | 1a8fa7faf4890d201aad4f5d4943f74d840cd0ba (patch) | |
| tree | 55b0a26f2a9cfb3a890d191edd9d71272a364a18 /tools/testing | |
| parent | c0e4a193ae91e5dcfbb920b2ba74599b05e2b2eb (diff) | |
resolve_btfids: Implement --patch_btfids
Recent changes in BTF generation [1] rely on ${OBJCOPY} command to
update .BTF_ids section data in target ELF files.
This exposed a bug in llvm-objcopy --update-section code path, that
may lead to corruption of a target ELF file. Specifically, because of
the bug st_shndx of some symbols may be (incorrectly) set to 0xffff
(SHN_XINDEX) [2][3].
While there is a pending fix for LLVM, it'll take some time before it
lands (likely in 22.x). And the kernel build must keep working with
older LLVM toolchains in the foreseeable future.
Using GNU objcopy for .BTF_ids update would work, but it would require
changes to LLVM-based build process, likely breaking existing build
environments as discussed in [2].
To work around llvm-objcopy bug, implement --patch_btfids code path in
resolve_btfids as a drop-in replacement for:
${OBJCOPY} --update-section .BTF_ids=${btf_ids} ${elf}
Which works specifically for .BTF_ids section:
${RESOLVE_BTFIDS} --patch_btfids ${btf_ids} ${elf}
This feature in resolve_btfids can be removed at some point in the
future, when llvm-objcopy with a relevant bugfix becomes common.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181321.1283664-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251224005752.201911-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
[3] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/168060#issuecomment-3533552952
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251231012558.1699758-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/testing')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile index f28a32b16ff0..9488d076c740 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ $(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS): $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.o: \ $$(if $$(TEST_NEEDS_BTFIDS), \ $$(call msg,BTFIDS,$(TRUNNER_BINARY),$$@) \ $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS) --btf $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/btf_data.bpf.o $$@; \ - $(OBJCOPY) --update-section .BTF_ids=$$@.BTF_ids $$@) + $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS) --patch_btfids $$@.BTF_ids $$@) $(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS:.o=.d): $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.d: \ $(TRUNNER_TESTS_DIR)/%.c \ |